Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—L. L. Weller, an organ manufac'urer at Muncie, lost an arm by contact with a buzz saw. —The Sheriff of Spencer County removed* the Hendershot murdereis from Bockport to Jeffersonville, to guaid agiinst another lynching. —A horse driven by Henry Weinland, nt Hope, ran away, throwing him and his wife from the buggy, breaking Mr. Weinland’s leg, and injuring Mrs. Weinland so that she died. —John Burrell, of Seymour, arrested at Shelbyville on Sept 21 for passing counterfeit money, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary at Jeffersonville. —The wife of John Calvert, one of the leading farmers of Carroll Coun’.y, while laboring under a tempoiary brain trouble, escaped from her attendants and hanged herself in a smoke house. —The Indiana Supreme Court his decided that it his no power to respite or grant pardon to convicted criminals. The law conferring that power on any other person than tha Governor is unconstitutional. —ln a runaway at Indianapo is, William Campbell was fatally injured. The horse which caused the accident is the same animal which killed A. C. Buddenbaum three weeks ago. Campbell was thrown from the wagon in front of Buddenbaum’s late residence. —A young man by the name of John Burns, of Lafayette, a deaf mute and imbecile, who was found a few days ago eating a snake, a portion of which he had in his possession, died, after suffering in great agony. How he obtained the snake is not known.

—Jeffersonville item in Louisville Commercial: Dr. Graham, the centenarian, of Louisville, had a very narrow escape near this city ten years ago. He was hunting fossils near the Fe’.ix Lewis cut on the J., M. <fc 1., in company wi h Dr. S. C. McClure, when a train came along and Dr. Graham, being hard of hearing, was nearly caught. It just caught his coat-tail and tore it off. The accident happened just on the aged gentleman’s ninetieth birthday, and i frightened him considerably. -—After a five days’ trial at Evansville, the case of the Henderson Bridge Company against the Ingle heirs has beeu decided. After being out for seven hours the jury returned a sealed verdict. The Ingle claim was $20,000 for the condemnat:o iof nineteen and a quarter acres of laud belonging to the Ingle heirs. In the trial the land was sworn to be worth different prices, ranging from SIOO to $1,500 per acre. The jury made a tour of inspection over the contested territory, and then, after hearing the testimony, they returned a verdict of $12,000 in favor of the heirs. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court of the State.

—Residents of Monroe township, Clarke County, ure much exercised over the mysterious operations of a man named Wiseman. He built a furnace and shop on the banks of Silver Creek, in which for several months he has been pursuing some mysterious occupation, and is evidently developing some experiment or carrying on something he does not want the public to be familiar with. Considerable coal and lead have been hauled to the place, and a chemist or metallurgist has been brought there. The premises are securely locked and guarded. For nearly five months this mysterious business has been going on, and yet no one has been able to learn what Wiseman is at.

—A shrieking girl, aged about 1G years, bearing traces of dissipation, was found at an early hour on the bank of Charley Creek, near the outskirts of Wabash, unconscious from the combined effects of liquor and an epileptic fit. She lay within a few inches from a smoldering fire, and when found was almost chi led to death. She was taken to the County Jail and given a cell in the women’s department, and two physicians were summoned. One of them expressed the belief that the girl, who is good-looking and well dressed, had been lured to the lonely spot, drugged, and robbed. The girl herself, upon recovery, stated that she remembers nothing that occurred the night before. She says that her home is in Ohio, and was sent to that State. The whole affair is a mystery, and creates a big sensation.

—James F. Butler, the Hartford City boy who has been troubled with a sarcoma cancer, has died of strangulation. Last June he noticed something growing on the inside of his right cheek. Little notice was taken of it until it had attained the size of an egg. The boy was taken to Cincinnati and an able surgeon removed the tumor, together with all the superfluous flesh. In less than a week it had swollen to the size of an orange. This time the surgeon extracted a number of teeth, and removed part of the lower jaw bone. In less than a week the same operation was performed. In all h re have been twenty-nine operations, three at Cincinnati and twenty-six at home. Every time the boy expressed himself perfectly willing to endure the oideal of the operation and showed unflinching nerve. His lower jaw was d awn out of the socket and his teeth had not been together for two weeks. He received non ishment of no kind except beef tea, and that could only be swallowed by pushing it to one side of his mouth.

—Corydon R. Shimer, a farmer living near Indianapolis, was atticked by his Jersey bull. The point of one horn pene.rated Mr. Sh'mer’s cheek near the mouth, uid tore upward to tho left eye, lifting the cheek-bone frem its at achment, and makng a horrible wound. The other horn itruck him in the arm, mangling the flesh, md he was otherwise bruised and trampled ipon. His condition is critical. —Ed Kearney, of Owensboro, was killed in the Bon Harbor coal mine.